Helpful and good tool, but over priced! Not what I expected!

I really like mind-mapping and feel it is an extremely valuable exercise to help organize thoughts and visualize ideas floating in your brain. It can be used in so many ways, from studying complex issues in academia, to review of options on a future course of action one might take. I was a big user of the original iThought for iPad from its early beginnings. When I heard of the updated versions I quickly applied them to my iPad and iPhone; I then became aware of the Mac IOS 8 version. I reluctantly paid the $47.99 (a lot compared to other mind-mapping tools in the App store), but felt that from the history of this app’s preceding versions it would be worth it. My sadness came in actually using it. It relies very heavily on the menu bar on the top of your screen desktop screen for interaction, it is rather stiff in usage unlike the original iPad version. It does not allow for clean flexible mind-maps, but rather largely restricts users to use more predetermined layouts that sometimes won’t fit the need. The freedom and free flow of the old version was exceptional… I hope it is regained one day soon in the Mac desktop version! Since I’ve made the investment, I’ll wait and hope for updates that expand the usage capabilities and flexibility. May be even it’ll be able to utilize the iCloud drive, which competitor desktop apps utilize, or at least a simple dropbox interface — both missing at this time! I trust that since the Mac version is new, that updates and expansion will one day make my investment worth the money spent… right now, I’d suggest others examine what the competition offers in this category.

MySojourning about iThoughtsX - Mind Map